Swing



Ma ch 26, 1929. T, D, 5m 1,706,863

SWING Filed Dec. 2, 1927 gwwntoo Patented Mar. 26, 1929.

. UNITED STATES TROY n. SMEDLEY, or'wA'rEnLoo, Iowa.

SWING.

.llpplication .filed December 2, 1927. Serial No. 237,275.

My invention relates to improvements in swings, and the object of my improvement is to furnish particularly for lawn and porch swings and the like, a swing device which includes means for self-operation of the swing by a person or persons seated thereupon, said means being simple, inexpensive, and easy and natural in operation.

This obj ect I have achieved by the constructions which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. l is a .side elevation and Fig. 2 an end elevation,

with parts in transverse section or removed, of my improved swin While I have mentioned the suitableness of my self-operating means as included in a lawn or porch swing, yet it is to be understood that any kind of swing may be similarly equipped within the principle of my invention.

It is also to be understood that my invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, nor to the various details thereof, as the same may be modified or rearranged invarious particulars without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, one practical embodiment of which has been herein illustrated and described without attempting to show all of the various forms and modifications in which my invention might be embodied.

In said drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 show side and end elevations respectively, with parts removed in both, of a porch swing of a preferred construction, having a frame includ' ing spaced rigidly connected triangular supports for movably connected seats suspended swingingly therebetween.

For a lawn or porch swing 1 preferably provide spaced front and rear parallel hollow triangular frame parts whose beams 1 at the ends are rigidly connected convergently at the top and whose lower divergent ends are rigidly connected to the basal beams 2. The lower end parts of these structures are then rigidly connected by means of cross beams 3. v

A cylindrical tubular or solid cross memher 4 terminally traverses seating apertures horizontally in the convergent ends of the end beams 1 and carries terminal caps without the beams 1 which also serve to support the said convergent ends in place and from spreading apart.

The numeral 0 denotes a transversely spaced pair of eyes or rings of cylindrical form mounted to rocknpon the end parts of the cylindrical fixed shaft or beam 1 within the said triangular frame structures 1-2, and have integral projections or other means for fastening them in each case upon the convergent upper ends of a pair of lnmger bars 6 at the front and rear of the swing, the di vergent lower ends of the bar-s6 being rigidly connected by means of the bars 7, providing in each case another rigid triangular structure of great strength suspended from the beam 41 to swing endwise thereon.

Cylindrical cross-bars 8 have their ends mounted rigidly in alining apertures in the lower parts of the hanger bars 6 and in blocks 18 secured on the inner faces thcreof,,a1nl seats 16 are medially pivotally or rockingly mounted upon said cross-bars 8 intermediate the hangers 6 and are preferably supplied.

with backs 9 and forward depending legs 11 braced to the seats by means of angle-braces 10 and 15 respectively. The seat backs may be provided with rear cross slats 17 or otherwise closed comfortably for sitters.

The numeral 13 denotes connecting bars pivotally connected at 12 to the abutting lower terminations of the seat legs 11 to normally remain horizontal when the hangers 6 are at rest. These connecting bars are rigidly connected between said seats by means of a slatted platform 14.

The swing may be used and self-operated by one or more persons seated on the seats 16, or one of the latter. The sitter or sitters, whether a single sitter on one seat or sitters on both seats, may easily swing the hanger bars or structure G7 by merely shifting backwards and forwards to change their centers of gravity relative to the seats and the said structure, and which causes the swinging of said structure to a scope of n'lovement desired. Persons seated on both seats 16 may thus cooperate in effecting the swinging, by both rocking their seats, as the connecting bars 13 function in equalizing the seat move ments and in together causing a swinging of the hangers 67 together with the seats. The feet of the seated persons may fulcrum upon the slatted platform 14, rendering it easy to thrust thereon in tilting the seats 16 and back 9l7, which affords at both ends of the rocking movements of the seats good leverage thereon.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a swing, a swingingly rigidly con.- nected suspended structure, operating elements rockingly mounted on opposite parts thereof in the direction of its swinging move ments, and a connector pivotally connected between like parts of said elements, whereby when said elements are rocked said structure caused to swing.

'2. In a swing, a swingingly rigidly connected suspended structure, seats rockingly mounted on opposite partst-hereot in the direction of its swinging movements, the seats havingafixed depending parts, and a connector pivotally connected to and between said depending parts ofboth seats.

3. In a swing, a swingingly rigidly -con-,

nected suspended structure, seats rockingly mounted on opposite parts thereof in the direction of its swinging movements, the seats having u iwardly directed backs and downwardly projecting forward parts, and a connector pivotally connected to and between the lower ends of said latter parts of both seats permitting simultaneous rocking of both seats on said structures.

7 4. In" a swing, swingingly supported spaced triangular suspended structures, cross connections between the opposite end parts of said structures, seats rockingly mounted on said cross connections, and a platform between said seats and therebelow having its wherebythe like simultaneous rocking of one or both said vdevices is effected and causes swingingwof said structure.

In testimony whereof I aflix mysignature.

TROY I). SM'EDLEY, 

